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Pola Negri
The Iconic Collection
“The Early Films”
(1917-1921)

Contents: The Polish Dancer (1917), The Yellow Ticket (1918), The Eyes of the Mummy Ma (1918) and Sappho (1921).

Bright Shining City Productions
2011 DVD edition

Pola Negri: The Iconic Collection “The Early Films” (1917-1921), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 240 minutes total, not rated, including The Polish Dancer (1917), black & white, 44 minutes, not rated, The Yellow Ticket (1918), black & white, 47 minutes, not rated, Eyes of the Mummy Ma (1918), black & white, 58 minutes, not rated, and Sappho (1921), black & white, 80 minutes, not rated.

Bright Shining City Productions,
no catalog number, UPC 7-93573-89802-9.
Three single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard three-disc DVD keepcase; $39.98.
Release date: 2011.
Country of origin: USA

This multi-disc DVD collection has been mastered from a four very-good 16mm reduction prints.

Ultimately, the quality of this collection is a bit disappointing, as Eyes of the Mummy Ma and Sappho are available in better-looking home video editions.